Improvement in cigar-machines



R. ROBERTS.

Gigar-Maohine..

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WITNESSE" ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT ROBERTS, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CIGAR-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,632, dated December10, 1878 application filed January 22, 1878.

3 is a transverse section taken on line a; w in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4.is a detail View 6f a portion of the end of the machine.

My invention relates to the class of cigarhnnching machines that employa number of rollers for applying the binder and wrapper to the filling.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing,and then pointed out in the claim.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A A are semicircular end pieces, which aresecured to the base B, and in which three rubber-covered rollers, (l OO, are journaled. To the semicircular end pieces are hinged movable endpieces 1), which are similar in form to the pieces A, and are firmlyconnected together by rods a and by the bar I). In the end pieces Dthree rubber-covered rollers, E E E, are journaled.

A table, F, is supported near the roller O, for receiving the hinder orwrapper to be applied to the cigar. A roughened metallic roller, G, isjournaled in the ends of the springarms 0, which are attached to the barI), and press the roller against the rubber-covered roller O.

Below the roller E, and near roller Gr, a thin steel strip, 1, issupported by attachment to the end pieces D, and acts as a scraper tokeep the roller G clean, and to prevent the binder or wrapper fromfollowing the roller E. The ends of the strip I are turned at rightangles, and slotted to receive the screws d, which enter the end piecesD, and hold the strip in any desired position.

A bow-spring, H, is attached to one of the end pieces A, and bearsupward against a pin, 0, that projects from the hinge that connects theupper and lower end pieces, and throws the frame that contains upperseries of rollers down upon the support of the lower rollers. Astop-pin, f, limits the motion of the frame that supports the upperrolls.

A thimble, J, having several circumferential grooves, is designed forholding the ends of the filling.

The operation of my improved device is as follows: The ends of thefilling are placed in the thimble J, and the upper rollers are closeddown upon the filling and the thimble. The binder, properly pasted, isinserted between the rolls O G, and the thimble J is turned until thebinder is on the cigar. The wrapper is applied in the same way. Thedevice is then opened, and the cigar removed and finished by hand.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination, with the two front rollers, O E, ofa thin strip, I, and a spring-pressed roll, G, arranged as shown anddescribed, to facilitate the taking in of the binder and wrapper.

ROBERT ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

SYLvEsTEE H. READ, WALTER (3. BEARDSLY.

